The Idaho Falls Police Department arrested Charles Nelson Beasley, age 50, for the Idaho Falls robbery of a McDonald's restaurant on Saturday afternoon at an undisclosed location in Bingham County. The robbery was reported to the IFPD at 8:17 a.m. Saturday morning at the McDonald's on 17th Street by the Albertson and Sam's Club, just east of Holmes Avenue. Read the entire story in the print edition of the Morning News. [Read More]

The United States issued a pre-emptive warning to Iran on Thursday against pursuing three planned space rocket launches that it said would violate a U.N. Security Council resolution because they use ballistic missile technology.

We're into Day 13 of the partial government shutdown, and there's no end in sight. Common wisdom says the longer this lasts, the worse the politics will get for President Donald Trump. I disagree. Trump isn't likely to suffer politically because he's not doing anything his supporters find objectionable. A Quinnipiac poll last month found that 43 percent of Americans, including 86 percent of Republicans and 45 percent of independents, support building the wall. Support for the wall is so high among Trump supporters that even Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said this week that he supports it while blasting... [Read More]

A New York City law to curb Airbnb and other online home-rental services was temporarily blocked on Thursday by a federal judge, who ruled that the law likely violates the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure. [Read More]

Financial markets were on edge on Friday as weak U.S. economic data added to fears of a global slowdown and pushed investors to bet the Federal Reserve could reverse policy and start cutting interest rates before the end of this year. [Read More]

House Democrats vowed to press ahead on Thursday with plans to pass a legislative package that would reopen shuttered parts of the federal government without providing any new money for President Donald Trump's promised border wall -- despite a White House veto threat. [Read More]

China and the United States will hold vice ministerial level trade talks in Beijing on Jan. 7-8, as the two sides look to end a dispute that is inflicting increasing pain on both economies and roiling global financial markets. [Read More]

China said a U.S. delegation will visit next week for trade talks, confirming the two sides will have their first face-to-face negotiation since President Donald Trump and his counterpart Xi Jinping agreed to a 90-day truce in their trade war last month. [Read More]

Longtime Ald. Edward Burke, one of Chicago's most powerful figures and a vestige of the city's old Democratic machine, has often been considered too clever and sophisticated to be caught blatantly using his public office to enrich himself. But after years of dodging investigations while watching... [Read More]

Middle East Eye has reported, citing unnamed sources, that US President Donald Trump had sought assurances from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Ankara's move against Kurdish forces in Syria would not create a humanitarian crisis. [Read More]

Leaders of the union representing Los Angeles teachers are poised to meet Monday with school district officials for talks that could avert a strike scheduled for late next week. The negotiations would be the first since mediation efforts broke down in early October. Both sides said Thursday that... [Read More]